Cusseta, AL
Cusseta wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Cusseta lands at the 81st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 140 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cusseta at the 84th percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
Cusseta's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 100% of Cusseta's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 140 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Cusseta ranks
Cusseta scores 81st nationally and 77th within Alabama — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cusseta ranks 6,132 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,275 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 138 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cusseta
Cusseta's very high rating (81st percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Cusseta
Cusseta's 100% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cusseta's 6,132-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Cusseta, see the exposure-zones guide.